The data shows traffic was down 7.5% from this time last year, with about 273,000 fewer cars entering the congestion relief zone, below 60th Street, last week, the MTA said. The area below 60th ...

Results from the first week are in: Congestion pricing is helping break up the city’s infamous gridlock. The number of cars entering the zone below 60th Street is down about 8% from baseline ...

Most of the data was from the 13 routes directly affected by congestion pricing, with additional routes from outside the zone to measure the effect on those commutes. And they even included a ...

These zones restrict the entry of high-polluting vehicles or charge them a fee ... the city first began implementing congestion pricing in 2003. Their Low Emission Zone (LEZ) followed in 2008 ...

The data also shows that approximately 219,000 fewer vehicles entered the Congestion Relief Zone—anywhere south of 60th Street—during that period. Perhaps most telling is the fact that those ...

Traffic on New York City’s busiest streets dropped by 7.5%, and morning travel times fell on most major crossings into Manhattan during the first work week of the city’s congestion pricing ...

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the MTA measured a reduction of about 7.51% in the number of vehicles entering the "congestion relief zone" below 60th Street in Manhattan. About 583,000 vehicles drive into the zone on an average ...

Numbers show, from last Sunday to Friday, between 475,000 to 561,000 cars drove into the congestion zone, a number which the MTA estimates this time of year would normally be closer to 583,000.

Traffic in New York City has fallen since a congestion charge scheme for vehicles came ... The congestion zone covers an area south of Central Park, taking in such well-known sites as the Empire ...

Traffic volume and travel times have improved, the MTA said Monday. Preliminary data from the first week of New York City's highly debated congestion pricing program shows the country's first such ...

The incoming president, who is originally from New York and whose Trump Tower resides within the Manhattan congestion zone, has been ... below 60th street; the charge is $9 during peak hours ...